Search results for “the pitch” Showing 344 results Roundup: 2013 Best of Narrative Storytelling in Journalism For our second annual Best of Narrative roundup, our selectors reported an anguishing task: so many great pieces, so few berths. Enjoy these top picks from 2013. And Happy New… December 30, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Lillian Ross and Ernest Hemingway It’s easy, now, to see Lillian Ross’s 1950 New Yorker Profile of Ernest Hemingway for what it is: a masterpiece. But 63 years ago, this wasn’t so obvious. Ross, as… December 17, 2013 “Narrative Sweat & Flow,” Part 2: Lane DeGregory and David Finkel Editor’s note: The Oregonian’s Simina Mistreanu spoke to seven narrative journalists for her University of Missouri master's project on longform. On Tuesday, we ran her piece on the challenges and… December 5, 2013 What they’re tweeting: oral histories Twitter breeds all kinds of storytelling conversation starters, and we’ve started rounding them up. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff tweeted for recommendations on crime writing and empathy a couple of weeks… November 14, 2013 “Pebbles in the Pond: Touching Hearts One Story at a Time” Editor’s note: This is the fourth and last piece covering this year’s “Power of Storytelling” conference, in Bucharest. For the setup, and to watch Esquire‘s Chris Jones talk about the intersection of storytelling and… November 1, 2013 Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” Why did it strike a chord with people? Talese has no idea October 8, 2013 Featured Fellow: Julia Keller Julia KellerNieman Class of 1998A former Chicago Tribune reporter and cultural critic, Keller won the 2005 Pulitzer for feature writing, for her “gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second… September 24, 2013 No. 83: David Foster Wallace on a ticket to the fair Late summer is carnival season, when fairgrounds across Middle America sprout blooms of creaky steel whirling machines and stands of sugary fried food, jostling us from our languor and threatening… August 30, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,… August 20, 2013 "Detroit: A love story:" Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city Fast Company's Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate;… August 16, 2013 Previous 1 … 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 … 35 Next
